elbow – English noun declension

English noun forms of elbow

Noun: elbow
Singularelbow
Pluralelbows

Sample Sentences

  • Up to the elbowes naked were there Armes. [1627, Michael Drayton, “The Moone-Calfe”, in English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2016:]
  • Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics." [1907, Robert W. Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set:]
  • the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back
  • The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; […] [1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:]
  • "An elbow, huh?" putting all the contempt he could in his voice; and somehow any synonym for detective seems able to hold a lot of contempt. [1924, Dashiell Hammett, Zigzags of Treachery:]
  • In the fair dinkum department that elbow prop Barrie McDermott threw into the face of Paul Sironen deserved to get him four months on the side-lines[.] [1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 200:]
  • England ran Tunisia ragged in that spell but were punished for missing a host of chances when Ferjani Sassi equalised from the penalty spot against the run of play after Kyle Walker was penalised for an elbow on Fakhreddine Ben Youssef. [2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2019:]

Etymology

From Middle English elbowe (“elbow”), from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell + bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål albue (“elbow”), Norwegian Nynorsk olboge (“elbow”), Faroese albogi, Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”), Swedish armbåge (“elbow”). See: Middle English Nouns 'elbowe', Old English Nouns 'elboga', Dutch Nouns 'elleboog', German Nouns 'Ellbogen', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'olboge', Faroese Nouns 'albogi', Icelandic Nouns 'olbogi', Swedish Nouns 'armbåge'.

Verbs referencing "elbow"

Swedish Nouns armbåge, Danish Nouns albue, Ancient Greek Nouns ὠλένη, Latvian Nouns elkonis.